Keeping ‘dying’ baby Indi on ventilator will only ‘prolong matters’ | UK News

A baby at the centre of a life support case is ‘dying’ and continuing treatment will only ‘prolong matters’ a court has heard.

Seven-month-old Indi Gregory, who was born with mitochondrial disease, is currently being treated at a hospital in Nottingham.

A doctor, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told a High Court judge on Monday that Indi faces a ‘terrible reality’ due to her condition, which saps energy from the body’s cells.

He told Mr Justice Peel: ‘We feel very sad. She is a little girl we have tried to treat to the best of our abilities.

‘The terrible reality is that she is dying.’

The doctor said that ‘further ventilation’ would ‘prolong matters’.

Staff deal with ‘child life cases almost on a monthly basis’ but Indi’s case is ‘really difficult’, he continued.

One one day alone, she required ‘nine episodes of resuscitation to keep her alive’, he added.

Indi’s parents, who are both in their 30s and from Derbyshire, want treatment to continue.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital treating Indi, has asked the judge to make a decision on her case.

Emma Sutton KC, leading the trust’s legal team, told the court Indi is ‘critically’ ill with a ‘devastating neurometabolic disorder’.

Indi’s illness is ‘exceptionally rare’, she added. The case continues.

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